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May 28, 2007

G50: Red Sox 5, Cleveland 3

Schilling was dominant, regaining control of his fastball and split to strike out a season-high 10 batters (7-6-1-0-10, 114).

Yook hit an inside-the-park home run and scored standing up (20-game hitting streak)! Manny smashed a line drive shot over the Wall in left, and Dustin Pedroia went 3-for-3, with a single, two doubles and a walk.

Papelbot stumbled in the 9th, but held on to strike out Hafner with the tying runs aboard.

The Red Sox's 10 hits: 2 singles, 6 doubles, and 2 home runs. ... The two singles came in the third inning, before the Sox had scored any runs.

Yankees lost to Toronto 7-2. The Devil Rays scored twice in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Tigers 6-5 and raise their record to 21-28, 13.5 GB -- same as New York's.

His ninth-inning home run against the TCM at Yankee Stadium that gave Pedro a 2-0 win on May 28, 2000 -- how on Earth can that have been seven years ago?!? -- and his pinch-hit two-run, game-winning blast at Fenway against Oakland to win Game 3 of the 2002 ALDS are two of my fondest memories of Boston career.

Cafardo has the update on Clemens in his rehab - through 3 innings he's retired 9 of 10 batters. Maybe they will have him start in Boston. I'm sure Pettitte would be more than happy to move back his start one day.

► Boston’s previous largest 1st place advantage after 49 games was 9.0 GA in 1946.

► Julio Lugo is the 1st Sox player to be successful on at least his 1st 14 steal tries of a season since 1943, when Leon Culbertson was successful on all 14 of his SB attempts

► Sox are 4-1 at home in games started by opposing lefthanders, losing only to Baltimore and Brian Burres on May 11.

From my research: Schillings last start against the Yankees he gave up 12 hits the most since April 22, 2004 when he gave up 13 hits in Toronto, in the two games after that against Tampa Bay and Cleveland Schilling pitched 14.1 innings allowing only 2 runs.

Would like to see Curt get on a similar roll against Cleveland and MFY this weekend.

Does anyone think, or care, that the dramatic shift used for Giambi , Ortiz and whoever else they use it for, is counterproductive. Just for the fact it makes pitchers pitch to that hitters strength.I mean if all Giambi wants to do ispull the ball why not pitch him outside rather then busting him in so he will hit into the shift.

I'm definately picking up one of the red jerseys, #20...i've wanted one ever since he got called up back in '04 and ripped a homer in his first(?) game @ skydome...that was awesome, he immediately hiked to the top of my favorite player list that season. what sealed the deal was the classic denis leary commentary on him being "jewish" last season, and leary ripping into mel gibson as youk made some stellar plays at first.

Before anyone potentially brings it up, no one was booing Trotter when he came up with the bases loaded in the 8th. That was the audible groan of 30,000 Sox fans who'd seen this sort of thing go terribly wrong in the past, and expected Trot to launch one into Williamsburg on the first pitch.

Of course, it didn't happen. Javier Lopez is quickly becoming one of my favorite guys, against all odds. And JC Romero... is also a guy who pitches.

My girlfriend and I, and my parents, do "Yook" in any and all situations.

Sean: You probably had a bad angle on the scoreboard from 32, but if you heard a loud cheer while Manny batted fairly late in the game, followed by a "Yankees Suck" chant, that was the moment their score changed from 4-0 to 7-0.

When the game ended, the scoreboard still showed 5-4 Detroit in the 9th. I got home to find out TB actually came back to win! So the Yanks are in dead last (when going alphabetically by team name.) There is no team in the majors FARTHER out of first place than the Yanks...